Description Philipp Hahn 2017-03-31 09:25:24 CEST

systemd complains about "/etc/mtab" not being a symbolic link to "/proc/mounts":
# dmesg
> systemd[1]: /etc/mtab is not a symlink or not pointing to /proc/self/mounts. This is not supported anymore. Please make sure to replace this file by a symlink to avoid incorrect or misleading mount(8) output.

This already seems to be the case, but systemd complaints anyway:
# ls -l /etc/mtab /proc/self/mounts /proc/mounts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Mär 28 12:17 /etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Mär 29 13:22 /proc/mounts -> self/mounts
-r--r--r-- 1 root root  0 Mär 29 13:22 /proc/self/mounts

# gzip -dc /boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` | cpio -t -v | grep mtab
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           12 Mar 28 12:16 etc/mtab -> /proc/mounts


Strangely enough I see this mostly directly after the reboot after installation, but not after further reboots.